Robert Edgar

Robert
Edgar

Robert Edgar is Director, Redwood City Digital Production Studio at Stanford University. He’s been working in the overlapping fields of cinema, computing and audio composition since the early 1970s. ...

Films

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    Simultaneous Opposites
    Animation
    Experimental

    Simultaneous Opposites
    Robert Edgar

    super 8mm, color, silent, 2.46 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Philosophical
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Structural
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    Intersticies
    Experimental

    Intersticies
    Robert Edgar

    16mm, color, sound, 10.14 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Philosophical
    • Technology
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Structural
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    Simultaneous Opposites #81: EIGHT O'CLOCK AM
    Animation
    Experimental

    Simultaneous Opposites #81: EIGHT O'CLOCK AM
    Robert Edgar

    Digital, color, sound, 10.07 min
    • Philosophical
    • Music
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Structural
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    Apperception
    Experimental

    Apperception
    Robert Edgar

    Digital, color, sound, 55.5 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Philosophical
    • Technology
    • Music
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Structural
    • Spiritual / Mystical
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    Stop Light Moon
    Experimental

    Stop Light Moon
    Robert Edgar

    Digital, color, sound, 3 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Music
    • Personal / Diary / Journal

Biography

Robert Edgar is Director, Redwood City Digital Production Studio at Stanford University. He’s been working in the overlapping fields of cinema, computing and audio composition since the early 1970s. From 1972-1976 he was part of the Synapse Video Coop, teaching video aesthetics classes at Syracuse University. His works include Intersticies (1973), Implicit X Explicit (1976), Memory Theatre One (1985), Living Cinema (1987), Sand, or How Computers Dream of Truth in Cinema (1994), The Duchamp Examinations (2006), Memory Theatre Two (2007), Complementary Opposites: Makrocosma Bali (2011), The Simultaneous Opposites Engine #1-89 (2008 – Present), Apperception (2024), and STOP LIGHT MOON (2025).